International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University Fumihiko Imamura, Director Last year on March 11 marked the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. IRIDeS published an edited book, Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake: 51 Approaches to Disaster Science, and held an annual symposium titled “Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Beyond” to summarize our progress to date and express determi...

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  The symposium On March 5, 2022, IRIDeS held a symposium called “The Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Symposium 2022: Development of the Research on Subduction Earthquakes and Preparation for the Future” at the Sendai International Center in Sendai, Japan, in a hybrid fashion, combining face-to-face and online methods. The symposium aimed at deepening our understanding of the latest research on subduction earthquakes and of future risks of major earthquakes and ...

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  Professor Shinichi Egawa Head, Public Relations Office International Cooperation for Disaster Medicine Lab Eleven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. In the afternoon of March 11, 2011, I was in my room on the 8th floor of the Tohoku University School of Medicine, after my Friday morning outpatient clinic. Feeling a sudden violent shaking, I could not move at all and started thinking, “This is a very big earthquake. It must be the Miyagi prefecture...

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  The World BOSAI Forum Foundation (WBF Foundation) is a general incorporated foundation that works closely with IRIDeS to realize BOSAI (disaster risk reduction) all around the world, aiming at decreasing the number of people who suffer from disasters. The WBF Foundation organizes and administers the World BOSAI Forum, an international conference open to the public, in cooperation with the International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos, Switzerland. In the spring of 2022, in addi...

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  Since the fiscal year 2018, Assistant Professor Shuji Seto and Professor Fumihiko Imamura of IRIDeS have been analyzing data on the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which was provided by the Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters. The research team continues to explore deaths by the earthquake and tsunami, while considering how to reduce casualties in the future. Every year in February, the research team holds a press conference to share the progress of the research with the...

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